What is the .MIF file type?

Primarily, the .mif extension associates with the MapInfo Interchange Format (MIF) and the
related file type. MapInfo is a common name of a series of powerful commercial GIS
software products by Pitney Bowes Software (former MapInfo). MIF is an ASCII-based
format that enables GIS-data interchange for a wide circle of MapInfo-compatible GIS
software.
A MapInfo .mif file is a plaintext (ASCII) file that contains a header and a data section. The
data section contains a set of statements with numerical coordinates that define the actual
graphics to be visualized, while the header announces the format version and contains
optional declarations. MIF files are usually used together with corresponding MID files that
hold textual data and are part of the MIF format.

Besides MapInfo, MIF/MID files can be imported, processed and exported by many GIS
applications.

In what concerns Adobe FrameMaker, the .mif extension represents the Maker Interchange

Format (MIF) and the respective file type. Adobe FrameMaker is a commercial structured
(XML-based) document authoring and desktop publishing solution by Adobe positioned for
professional technical writing.
With FrameMaker, a MIF file is an alternative representation of a FrameMaker native
document (.fm or .book) saved as an ASCII text file. Such a .mif file contains a complete
and equivalent definition of a FrameMaker document in a text form. MIF is often used as an
intermediary format for converting document files to/from FrameMaker.

The .mif extension is also used by ImageMagick, which is a multi-platform open-source set

of bitmap image processing and conversion utilities by ImageMagick Studio LLC. With
ImageMagick, a MIF file (more often with the .miff extension) is a bitmap image file in the
Magick Image File Format (MIFF). A MIF file is a two-part file, as it contains a plaintext
header and a binary bitmap data section.

With both the earlier Microsoft Systems Management Server (SMS) and the replacement
System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) technologies, the .mif extension denotes
the Management Information Format (MIF). In this context, .mif files are data files created
and used by SMS/SCCM as software and/or hardware inventory reports.
In electronic engineering, the .mif extension stands for the Memory Initialization Format
(MIF) and its associated file type. A MIF file is a plaintext (ASCII) file that defines initial
values for a memory block. Such .mif files are used by developers of electronic (incl.
computer) systems based upon programmable chips with embedded memory
(CPLD/FPGA).

In connection with Symbian-based Nokia mobile phones, the .mif extension is assigned to

icon resource files that contain sets of icon images in the SVG (or compressed SVGB)
vector format. On a Symbian-based phone, application icons inside MIF icon sets are
displayed in user menus.

Software to open or convert MIF files

You can open MIF files with the following programs:

FrameMaker

IBM WebSphere Studio Homepage Builder

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